Ireland - Day 8 - Immersion and Theatre

[snogged]

In the morning, I got to sleep in a little bit and then I headed over to the Buttery (the campus restaurant where the food tastes like college) where I met up with about four of my group mates and one extremely awesome counselor in Ireland who works with gays and lesbians. We got to talk and explore the issues they face here and he gave us a ton of information. I think one of the most interesting things was a study he did that showed counselors who have lesbian and gay friends and experiences in that community are more likely to want to seek further training than those who are less familiar (because they don't think they need sensitivity training even if they know nothing about that culture). That feels pretty unethical to me, in my opinion.

In the afternoon, we had a lecturer come into talk about credentialing (which was kind of a big snooze. No offense to her). And one of the faculty on our trip presented on intersexuality. She did a great job with the material and I felt like I was back in my Sociology of Gender class again :)

After lecture, we took the group picture and headed out to see the play, The Rivals, at the Abbey Theatre. It was a great romp through the Georgian era and the characters were interesting. There were a few parts that seemed slow but overall, I laughed a lot.

Comments

[rileysaplank.livejournal.com]

I can't even befin toi imagine what difficulties the LGBT community faces in Ireland with it still being a deeply religious country.

[snogged.livejournal.com]

From what I can tell, there's a lot of isolation still but the day before we got there, Dublin had its annual gay pride parade so bonus to that.

[my-lovers-eyes.livejournal.com]

I am so glad you are having fun!

[snogged.livejournal.com]

me too!

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

You really did learn interesting things today. But you know, that bit about counselors and learning makes sense. People with open minds will always see the need to learn more and narrow-minded people always think they know everything already, so...


Gabrielle

[snogged.livejournal.com]

*nods*

Couldn't agree with you more